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Current Affairs Questions for SBI PO: 2nd March 2017

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With SBI PO Prelims round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on daily basis so that you can do well in Mains exam. These current affairs are based on current news. Let us see how many questions you attempt accurately.

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Q1. National Science Day is celebrated all over India with great enthusiasm on 28th of February in order to commemorate the invention of the Raman Effect in India by the Indian physicist, Sir C V Raman. What was the theme of ‘National Science day, 2017’?
(a) Science for All
(b) Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
(c) Science for secured future
(d) Science and Technology for specially abled persons
(e) None of the above themes are correct

 Q2. The Haryana government has recently set up an online system for Panipat district to monitor the sex-ratio as part of which of the following scheme?

(a) Women and Child Welfare Scheme
(b) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao
(c) Integrated Child Protection Scheme
(d) Kishori Shakti Yojana
(e) Bal Vikas Yojana
Q3. An expert committee set up by SIDBI recently has sanctioned Rs 300 crore to fund managers who would invest in startups, taking the total sanctions so far this fiscal 2016-2017 to over Rs 1,100 crore. Name of that committee is __________.
(a) Credit Committee
(b) Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
(c) Venture Capital Investment Committee
(d) Information Technology Strategy Committee             
(e) Stakeholders Relationship Committee
Q4. Paytm E-Commerce launched Paytm Mall recently, a mobile app and online shopping portal. Paytm Mall is the new avatar of Paytm’s three-year-old e-commerce business. Paytm is an arm of which of the following companies?
(a) Nexus
(b) Microsoft
(c) Google
(d) One97 Communications Pvt. Ltd
(e) 360 degree Communications
Q5. Name the company, with which Tata Communications has tied up recently to support the roll-out of the former’s Internet of Things platform, the LoRa (Long Range) network.
(a) Lenovo
(b) Dell Enterprise
(c) Microsoft
(d) Hewlett Packard Enterprise
(e) ASUS
Q6. Indian International cricketer Virat Kohli was named as the ‘Captain of the Year‘ at the 10th annual ‘ESPNcricinfo Awards’. Name the player, who won the best ‘Debutant of the Year Award’.
(a) Keaton Jennings
(b) Colin De Grandhomme
(c) Haseeb Hameed
(d) Jayant Yadav
(e) Mehedi Hasan Miraj
Q7. P. Shiv Shankar passed away recently after a prolonged illness. He was famous ______________.
(a) Author
(b) Politician
(c) Spiritual Speaker
(d) Classical Singer
(e) Both (a) and (c)
Q8. Senior IAS officer Sumit Mullick was appointed as the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra. Mr. Mullick has succeeded __________.
(a) Swadheen Kshatriya
(b) Satya Prakash Tucker
(c) Smt. Sakuntala Gamlin
(d) Vinod Kumar Pipersenia
(e) Anjani Kumar Singh
Q9. In which of the following Indian States/UTs, India’s first heliport has been inaugurated recently?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Maharashtra
(c) New Delhi
(d) Chandigarh
(e) Assam
Q10. Jitu Rai won the gold medal in men’s event of the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup 2017, with a world record score of 230.1. In which category he won this medal?
(a) 10-meter air rifle
(b) 100-meter running target
(c) Skeet
(d) 50-meter free pistol
(e) Double Trap

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